Chapter 132: It Seems the Throne of the God King Is Already Within Reach!?

Lu Zheng was very curious about his current state.

He directly used the True Eye to appraise himself, examining the essential states of his skills and body.

After casting another skill on himself to deal damage, he confirmed his current situation.

The skill Avoid Death and Prolong Life was different from skills like Bronze Head and Iron Arms.

It was not a Super Armor type.

When Lu Zheng suffered an instance of damage, a fifty percent damage deduction would be applied first, and only the remaining fifty percent of damage would then take effect against Super Armor type skills.

In other words, when a skill's damage reached one billion points, only five hundred million points would take effect on Lu Zheng.

And if those five hundred million points were magic damage, they would first have one hundred and eleven million points deducted by three stacked Super Armor type skills, then be reduced by 65% to form true damage.

Without a doubt, this effect was better.

It was equivalent to directly weakening the enemy by half! The Red-Bottomed Horse Monkey's other skills — Shrinking the Earth to an Inch, Moving Mountains and Shifting Stones — all belonged to conventional skills: not weak, but not rare either.

At the very least, the enhancement to Lu Zheng's combat power was very limited.

The remaining other skill was also quite interesting.

【Skill: Yang Spirit Leaving the Body】

【Effect: Consumes a minimum of one million points of mana to release one's own Yang Spirit from the body. In Yang Spirit state, immune to physical attacks, but self-inflicted magic damage increases by 20% and mental damage increases by 50%; at the same time, self-cast magic skills have damage increased by 50% and mental damage increased by 50%】

This skill was highly targeted — it was meant to be used against enemies who dealt purely physical damage.

Because if the opponent also possessed soul-level attack methods, the damage to himself would increase as well, making it equivalent to gambling with his life.

Having mastered all the transformations and skills of the Four World-Disturbing Monkeys, Lu Zheng immediately proceeded to acquire the transformations and skills of several other divine pets.

After spending more than a full day, he finally succeeded in acquiring the abilities and transformations of all the divine pets and some immortal pets.

He again obtained two Super Armor skills of the same type as Bronze Head and Iron Arms.

【Skill: White Tiger Sacred Body (Passive)】

【Effect: Bestows the power of the Sacred Spirit; normal attacks add an additional 5% Sacred Spirit power damage; physical damage reduced by 20%, magic damage reduced by 20%】

【Skill: Torch Dragon Divine Body (Passive)】

【Effect: When attacked, triggers the Chaos Demon God's protection effect, returning 5% of all damage to the attacking target as true damage; physical damage reduced by 20%, magic damage reduced by 20%】

The White Tiger Sacred Body dealt extra damage, while the Torch Dragon Divine Body had true damage reflection.

These were all decent abilities.

But what Lu Zheng cared about most was still the damage reduction effect.

After a round of testing, his original 90.5% physical damage immunity had now become 94.5%, meaning that out of ten thousand points of physical damage, only five hundred and fifty points of health loss would be inflicted on Lu Zheng! The damage was merely one-twentieth.

His original 65% magic damage immunity could now negate 90.5% of damage, reducing it to less than one-tenth.

Damage had dropped by an entire order of magnitude, which meant that Lu Zheng would not be outmatched at all when facing upper gods!

The shortfall in mana was more than enough to offset, now that these level-five-hundred divine pets were linked together.

During this day-plus of time, Lu Zheng ceaselessly learned transformations and familiarized himself with skills.

Meanwhile, the newly acquired Four World-Disturbing Monkeys were leveling up frantically.

Thanks to the rich and high-quality monster resources of the Dead Soul Sea, the Four World-Disturbing Monkeys all successfully reached level five hundred.

Looking at the Dead Soul Sea, which still held many vengeful spirits and wraiths, Lu Zheng felt it shouldn't be wasted.

He still didn't go over directly.

Linking divine pets, channeling mana, releasing the skill — Devouring Black Hole!

Originally, only Taotie and Kunpeng had this kind of devouring skill, but now Lu Zheng could use it too.

The moment the Devouring Black Hole opened, in an instant, millions of wronged souls were sucked in.

Every second, millions of vengeful spirits and wraiths were devoured, and the experience points Lu Zheng accumulated surged wildly.

In less than a day and a night, the entire Dead Soul Sea was emptied by Lu Zheng. He certainly wasn't just releasing a single Devouring Black Hole.

Once his mana recovered, he immediately released a new one — as long as he could sustain it, he kept releasing.

With the effect pushed to maximum, the experience points poured into his body in a torrent.

Looking at the empty Dead Soul Sea, Lu Zheng felt a sense of loss.

It ended just like that.

Couldn't even hold out for a day — truly useless!

The next moment, he crossed this area and entered the inner region.

【Ding! You have completed the Death God King divine throne inheritance trial's third trial content: Crossing! The Dead Soul Sea!】

【Congratulations on obtaining rewards: Death Affinity +10%; Divine Skill: Soul Scourge】

【Current Death Affinity: 115%】

【Skill: Soul Scourge】

【Effect: Consumes a minimum of one million mana points, deals a minimum of five million magic damage and one hundred thousand mental damage to the target; multiple attacks can inflict a soul-separation stun effect】

The power of this Divine Skill lay not in its damage values, but in its ability to inflict the 'soul-separation stun' effect.

This meant that after multiple strikes, the opponent could be stripped of their ability to resist and fight back! 【Fourth trial content: Traversing! The Dark Sky Canopy!】

【Description: The Dark Sky Canopy prohibits all powers except darkness-type and death-type; within it, direction is indistinguishable, perception of time is blurred, and the threat of dark ghouls exists. By traversing here, you will reach the true core region of the Death God Temple】

【Reward: Death Affinity +15%; Divine Skill: Dark Sky Canopy】

Seeing the newly appeared trial content and rewards, Lu Zheng vaguely thought of something.

He summoned Qiongqi back directly from the Abyss Demon Realm and took a glance at its skills.

Sure enough, Qiongqi had mastered the 'Dark Sky Canopy' ability! Lu Zheng directly used 'Seventy-Two Transformations' plus the 'Ditian Wanfa' skill to learn all of Qiongqi's abilities first.

【Skill: Dark Sky Canopy】

【Effect: Consumes a minimum of one hundred thousand points of mana to create a Dark Sky Canopy within a certain area; within the area, all powers except darkness-type and death-type are prohibited, direction is indistinguishable, and perception of time is blurred】

The exact same thing!

After mastering this skill, Lu Zheng only felt that the Dark Sky Canopy before his eyes was so familiar.

Stepping into it was as though entering his own domain.

Perfect timing — Qiongqi had not yet reached level five hundred.

This place was filled with many powerful demigod-rank dark ghouls.

After a bout of slaughter, Lu Zheng not only leveled Qiongqi up to five hundred, but also brought the Flame Demon Palu, summoned back afterward, up to five hundred as well.

In this way, the sixteen divine pets in his hands had now all been raised to level five hundred! The directly mobilizable mana points approached five billion.

Perhaps, even against a Main God, he would not be without the strength to fight!?

Lu Zheng felt he was getting a bit swollen-headed.

Especially when he heard the prompt once more.

【Ding! You have completed the fourth trial of the Death God King divine throne inheritance trial: Traverse! The Dark Sky Canopy!】

【Congratulations on obtaining the rewards: Death Affinity +15%; Divine Skill: Dark Sky Canopy】

【Current Death Affinity: 130%】

Vast energy was converging into his body — this was power! Power that seemed inexhaustible.

Of the God King's nine trials, he had already completed four without any pressure.

It seemed that the God King Throne was already within easy reach!? Thank you for your support! (End of this chapter)